"Audiences are no longer just consumers of texts, but producers too"
To what extent is this true of the media products in your case study?
To what extent is this true of the media products in your case study?
The three texts I am looking at are in the genre of fantasy drama. They are ‘The Vampire Diaries’, ‘True Blood’ and ‘Misfits’. Each of my primary text work on all three platforms, some more than others. Also each of the text have their own different gratifications In the following essay I will be exploring how far I agree with the statement and coming to a final conclusion on whether I agree or disagree with it to what extent.
In one way I agree with this statement due to the use of User Generated Content (UGC). Each of my texts uses UGC, through the website You tube. Fans of the show upload pictures and music; they make video which makes them producers as they are creating. Also audiences are watching, rating and commenting on their videos therefore enhancing there power as producers
One way in which my three texts allow me to agree with this statement is through the emedia platform in which they each work on. Each of my text work on the emedia platform and through this platform they allow the audience to help shape what happens within the text. For example they all have websites which have registered fans and these fans are able to leave comments on the text itself. These comments can be anything, they can say if they liked the adapted storyline from the books or if they disliked them. They can suggest bits from the books the intuition should put into it and also for misfits they can suggest different power for different characters and different things they wish to see in the programs. So through this we can agree that the audience are becoming powerful in shaping the media outputs.
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